Immigration

Is Immigration “Decimating” Us?

Is illegal immigration one of the big problems facing America? Continue Reading »

4 Mar 2016

Conservative Populism is Divided Against Itself

Conservative populism can't catch a break. The party's elites have a stranglehold on policy. As Reihan Salam has pointed out, most Republicans are opposed to increasing immigration, but most Republican office holders favor vastly increasing immigration when they think the voters aren't looking. Only . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Mar 2016

Donald Trump and the Revenge of the Scorned

by Pete Spiliakos

Donald Trump's fiercest critics have hoped that his outlandish statements will eventually undo him. Their mistake is that Trump is a creation of America's (and the Republican Party's) political elites. The Trump phenomenon exists because Republican elites scorned large segments of their own . . . . Continue Reading »

7 Jan 2016

Two Theories of Immigration

by Mark R. Amstutz

Today there are twenty million refugees who have crossed international borders to escape violence and abject poverty. Forty million more have been displaced within their own countries. In 2015, half a million refugees have poured into Europe, with thousands dying at sea or in cramped smugglers’ . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2015

We Are In This Together

by Pete Spiliakos

Neither political party is speaking to the collective interests of America's wage-earners. Each party, in its own way, is playing wage-earners off against one another. America's wage-earners deserve a party which recognizes that the working-class (and Americans generally) share common interests and . . . . Continue Reading »

26 Nov 2015

Assimilated To What?

by Peter J. Leithart

To what do we want immigrants to assimilate? Continue Reading »

8 Oct 2015

Strangers and Aliens

by Peter J. Leithart

A sketch of the Bible's teaching on strangers and aliens. Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2015

Are Hispanics Assimilating?

by Peter J. Leithart

Evidence that Hispanics are assimilating to the US. Continue Reading »

25 Sep 2015

Assembling An American Majority

by Pete Spiliakos

Liberals are confident that they own the future, but conservatives have a chance to shape a better tomorrow. Ramesh Ponnuru notes that, even though the conservative voter base of white, married Christians is in relative demographic decline, American public opinion has been fairly stable over the . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Sep 2015